Iran seeks more talks with Russia over US exit from nuclear deal


FE Team | Published: June 09, 2018 15:08:26 | Updated: June 10, 2018 11:13:22


Iranian President Hassan Rouhani gives a press conference in Tehran, Iran, Monday, May 22, 2017. AP photo.

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said on Saturday he wanted more talks with Russia about what he called the ‘illegal’ US withdrawal from the Iran nuclear deal.  

Trump said last month Washington was withdrawing from what he called ‘a horrible one-sided deal’ and would re-impose US economic sanctions on Iran, reports Reuters.

Rouhani, speaking at a summit of the Chinese and Russian-led security bloc the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) in the port city of Qingdao, said that Russia’s role in implementing the nuclear deal had been ‘important and constructive.’

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